Search for man with pickaxe acting erratically near Cambridge St, Cambridge MA


Police are searching for a white male, about 40 to 50 years old, wearing an orange shirt and missing teeth. He was last seen acting erratically and carrying a pickaxe near Cambridge Street. No crime has been confirmed, but a well-being check is underway.
Audio|Source: Cambridge Police
04:36
Transcript:
00:00
They did not. They just said,
00:01
was there in last scene on near Cambridge Street in North Park now, heading down Cambridge Street they didn't say?
00:06
Okay, can you just give them a call back? Because we came from Prospect Street, there was nobody.
00:10
We're going to start heading towards Columbia.
00:11
But if you can just find out what direction they headed once they got to near Cambridge Street.
00:16
We'll make a call back.
00:17
Stand by. Okay, there's a gentleman at the end of Norfolk and all he's doing is pointing to the right.
00:21
So we're just going to keep traveling down near Cambridge Street.
00:23
We'll turn around and loop back around.
00:25
But we have nothing showing as of right now.
00:27
Received. The RP was...
00:28
at near North Park Street.
00:32
I'll call him that. Okay, yeah, that's the guy.
00:33
He must be outside.
00:34
But if you could just confirm, he just kept yelling and pointing down near Cambridge Street.
00:39
So we just continued in that way.
00:41
But we're going to loop around and check back.
00:43
Okay, he's telling us he went right.
00:45
He said toward East Cambridge, possibly everything toward Columbia.
00:49
Copy, we're going to just check these side streets areas around that.
00:53
See if we can locate them.
00:54
Our one's going off.
00:55
We'll check Columbia.
00:56
Receive. Received.
00:57
Florida control.
00:58
Answer on Flora. We're just going to go talk to the RP and just, um,
01:01
just obtain a story from him, see if there's anything further to add.
01:04
We're safe.
01:05
Very awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I just came up near Cambridge Street from the tracks up to Northbrook Street, nothing showing.
01:10
I'm going to go up at the original location as well, take a look at the in the access search.
01:14
Control us.
01:15
Control us. One out of control.
01:16
We're off the control. We're off the area as well.
01:17
What's the location one now with the unit?
01:19
Just in the area, team street.
01:21
Where's safe?
01:22
Friends where yeah?
01:24
Yeah, the after here, when I saw that that street, he took a right onto near Canber Street at the end of Norfolk Street here.
01:29
White male, approximately 40 to 50 years old.
01:31
Didn't have any teeth, according to him, orange shirt.
01:34
Received. Did go right onto near Cambridge Street, white male, 40 to 50, orange shirt, no teeth.
01:39
Yeah, this is going to be more of a well-being check.
01:41
You can't articulate any specific crime right now other than the erratic behavior with the pickaxe.
01:46
He didn't see actually swinging it around the neighborhood here.
01:50
Control out of time.
01:51
I want to control.
01:52
Control. Control of the answer, Tony.
01:53
One location, ma'am.
01:54
Percease on location.
01:56
Centralville, 12 control.
01:58
This one C12?
01:59
Myself, C10, 86, Hmark.
02:02
C12, C10 on an 86 at HMARC.
02:05
Call on 86.
02:06
Answering, count one.
02:07
Yeah, negative results so far, we'll keep check on the area in case you need the well-being check, otherwise we'll be clear and available for calls.
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Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
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